Works for piano - click links for .mp3 audio or score samples


Four StabilesPiano solo (8 min.) (1968) audio sample score sample

Pieces based on the principle of fixed register.

Score: Waiteata Music Press
Recording: Waiteata Music Press

Five MelodiesPiano solo (12 min.) (1982) audio sample score sample

Originally composed for Margaret Nielsen this set of short pieces for piano explores unconventional melodic
styles inspired by the melodic styles outside the Western "classical" tradition, including,
among others, bagpipe music, and the Chinese guqin zither. Score: Waiteata Music Press

Recording: Rattle CD RAT D006

Three RhythmicsPiano duet (12 min.) (1986) audio sample score sample

An exuberant, virtuoso exploration of rhythm for two stout-hearted and strong-fingered pianists.

Score: Waiteata Music Press
Recording: Waiteata Music Press

SarajevoPiano solo (12 min.) (1995) audio sample score sample

A heart-felt meditation on the tragedy of the Bosnian war. The three movements
are titled Remembering....Imperfectly, Totentanz, and Lachrymae.

Score: Waiteata Music Press
Recording: Trust CD MMT 2010

Fours on my teachingSpeaking pianist (3 min.) (1997)

A setting of a poem by Lou Harrison.

Score: the composer

14 Stations for amplified pianistPiano solo (amplified) (20 min.) (2000) audio sample

A music-theatre work especially written for Wellington pianist Dan Poynton. Although referring obliquely to
religious symbolism, the work focuses on the physical and mental stress that pianists submit themselves to.

Score: the composer

• Two BluesPiano solo (20 min.) (2004)

Tributes to John Lee Hooker and Mary Lou Williams, especially written for Dutch pianist Marcel Worms.

Score: the composer



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